My Dear Friend, I am sorry to hear of these things as well. I haven't written of my experience to anyone, but thought this might be the venue for it. I too was in Hebei , but in Baoding at the New Windows School. Obviously I'm writing to tell people not to go there. The owner took her partner for about $250,000US for the renovation of the school and fired him, if that's possible. All the teachers that he had used, she fired and didn't pay the administrative help as well. Her husband is a policeman and as the police are corrupt, so goes the school. I later did my research and found that many of the private English schools are for profit, not there to teach English. This was one such school. The owner kept putting new students in the one class and expected me to teach to a dozen students, all at different levels. Their end complaint was that I was not a good teacher and would have to be certified by the Chinese translators there, who couldn't speak English either. As the owner of the school she is not allowed to hold a government position but teaches law at the university. She has no degree or certification to teach law and can barely speak English herself. Obviously the corruption carries over into the University system as well. There are other infractions that were perpetrated but these upstanding citizens of China but not enough room to continue to enumerate them all.